Founder @ PMDojo | Ex-Atlassian | Product Leadership Coach | Keynote Speaker | Community Builder | Mom 👩‍👦🐶

You’re a high-performing woman doing everything right. You consistently deliver the results, survive the fire drills and have proven your value ten times over. Yet, when the Dir/VP roles open... you hear

"Be more strategic" "Have more executive presence" or "Wait your turn"

while less qualified people move ahead.💔

This isn't about your work ethic or working harder. It’s about power, perception, and strategic influence. As a former C-Suite executive, I know how these decisions are made because I've sat in the talent reviews and promotion discussions.

I started my career right at the bottom in a junior Tech Support role and fought through dysfunctional reorgs and M&As to become a Company President and C-Suite Executive. 

As a working mom and often the youngest executive in the room, I was told every reason why I wasn’t “fit” for the top. I didn’t just shatter the ceiling…I mastered the behavioral psychology required to own the room.

I’ve helped 5,000+ women get promoted at Dir/VP and C-Suite levels and, for many, build founder paths alongside or beyond corporate securing $5.5M in combined raises. and secure $5.5M in combined raises in months, not years.

Stop being the doer that does all the work and start being the leader who leads it. Every cycle you wait is a $40k-$125K mistake.

Send me a DM. Get your seat at the table.✌️

Bosky Mukherjee

Every investor who rejected these 6 women is somewhere regretting it. 🌶️ 
The venture capital world loves to talk about "potential," but only 2.3% of funding goes to women.

These 6 women didn't wait for a term sheet or a seat at someone else's table. They built their own, and more importantly, they kept every chair.

1: Sara Blakely - Turned $5,000 into Spanx, built a $1.2 billion company, and self-funded it for 21 years. When Blackstone bought it in 2021, she still owned 100%.
Lesson: The money you have is enough to start. The money you make is enough to grow.

2: Mahisha Dellinger: A bank told her no, so she bootstrapped CURLS with $25,000 anyway, a hair care brand for natural curls that industry ignored. Today, it's a $15 million brand sitting in Walmart, Target, and CVS Health.
Lesson: A bank's "no" isn't a verdict. It's a detour to full ownership.

3: Cate Luzio: Self-funded Luminary when everyone told her to raise. Now: 30 countries, 100+ corporate partners, and zero outside capital.
Lesson: People warning you about risk often haven't taken any themselves.

4: Natalia Shahmetova: When VCs wouldn't touch pet tech, she went ahead anyway. Woofz now has 21 million downloads and $20M in annual revenue, built entirely on her own terms.
Lesson: Build where no one's looking. By the time they notice, you're already ahead.

5: Jaclyn Johnson: Bootstrapped Create & Cultivate, sold it for $22 million, then bought it back. All by 35.
Lesson: An exit doesn't have to be the end. If you built it right, you can take it back.

6: ✨Vivian Kaye: She built what the beauty industry wouldn't...products for Black women with curly hair, starting with herself. A college dropout and single mother, she bootstrapped KinkyCurlyYaki to 7 figures.
Lesson: The best products come from founders who needed them first.

We’ve been trained to think that "making it" means someone else validated us with a check.

These 6 women didn’t wait for the world to change.
They built empires anyway.

P.S. Know a woman building something without VC backing? Tag her below; let's give her some 🌸 🥰 .

#womenintech #womeninbusiness #leadership #women
#womeninleadership

Jackie Velasquez-Ross

MetaLab

Director, Talent Acquisition

JVR Consulting

When I’m not running after my twins, sometimes I’m a recruiting and HR consultant for startups, tech companies, and design studios and agencies.

For individuals I provide job offer negotiation and career strategy coaching.

Recruiting Specialities: Product Design, UX Research, Design Ops, Product Management, and Strategy roles from IC to Executive Leadership level; Remote and distributed team building.

Speaking Specialties: How to get into tech, being a women in tech, the product design world, how recruiting works, DE&I, and negotiating as a woman and/or POC.

Clients: Blavity, Pilotly, Hotpoint App, Everlane, IDEO, Silk + Sonder, Hook, Bluecadet

Principal

Twitter

I managed a team of Recruiters that found the best product designers, UX researchers, content designers, program managers, and design strategists for Twitter. 

We all know what happened at the end 🥲

Recruiting Manager, Design & Research

Working on product design, research, and content design recruiting with some of the most incredible/creative/diverse creators ever assembled. 

#LoveWhereYouWork

Senior Recruiter

InVision

I transitioned into motherhood, took on new projects, and made lifelong relationships while working across the entire business. From ICs to VPs, I did it all.

InVision is the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. We provide design tools and educational resources for teams to navigate every stage of the product design process, from ideation to development.

Leading all things Leadership, Product Design & Product Management recruiting. Send me a note to chat!

Facebook

This job was intense, I met some of the most influential and inspiring leaders, ever.

Sourcing, engaging and hiring the best product design leadership for FB & Instagram.

Product Design Leadership Recruiting

Blavity

To date, this was one of my favorite opportunities - Blavity's leadership, mission and founding team were a dream to work with and hire.

Blavity is a community of the best multi-cultural creators and influencers in the world.

We believe that the world shifts according to the way people see it. 

If you change the way people view the world, you can transform it.

Talent Advisor

Level Studios

I hired folks for Apple marcom; high bar and iconic work.

We are a digital design firm inspired by smart thinking, visionary partners, and a big-picture mindset. 

Our people are thinkers, builders, and creators. We don’t just come to work every day. We show up. We show up for each other, for the work, for our partners. That means that when we create, we do so together. When we face new challenges, we do it together. When we celebrate, we do that together too. That makes for a culture that can’t be replicated, and it’s the key to everything at Level. 

I work on full life cycle Recruiting, lead University Recruiting & Diversity Recruiting efforts and Recruiting Analytics.

I'm looking for: Creative & Tech Interns, Interactive Producers, UX Researchers & Strategists, Copywriters and Senior Creatives of all kinds!
Send me a message with a link to your portfolio!

Recruiter

DDB San Francisco

Did a lot, met a lot of people, and figured out recruiting is my jam. 

Assistant to Group Creative Directors and Director of Integrated Production.

Oversaw logistics of domestic and international travel with detailed itineraries and agendas.

Partnered with Group Creative Directors, Creative Services Manager and HR to recruit full-time & freelance Creative and Strategy hires.

Executed Creative & Production department ad-hoc projects.

Entered creative award show competitions including Cannes, One Show, London International, Clio and Webby Awards.

Creative Coordinator

Goodby Silverstein & Partners

I moved to San Francisco to become a writer, I fell into recruiting. This is where it all started…

Admin Assistant 
Assistant to Creative Director & Director of Creative Talent.

Managed personal and work calendars. Collaborated with executives, account management, creative and strategy departments to plan and execute internal and external meetings.

Planned extensive domestic and international travel itineraries.
Handled and process all expense.

Acted as a liaison between Director of Creative Talent and creative candidates.

Coordinated creative candidate interview schedules and travel.


Receptionist
Managed the gateway to the office, handled all incoming calls, deliveries and guests.

Helped coordinate agency wide meetings and events.

Supported HR by coordinating account management and strategy candidate interviews and travel schedules.

Administrative Assistant & Receptionist

Hey there! I'm Jackie, I'm a natural people person, connector, and confidant. Whether it's striking up a conversation with a stranger or fostering a meaningful relationship with a new contact, I pride myself on making everyone feel comfortable and valued.

I believe in the power of design, the impact of research, the art of recruiting, and the community of talented people I've met along the way.

Outside of building design teams and organizations, I coach and support professionals through career transitions and provide niche negotiation support. If you're interested in working together, reach out!

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